Forthcoming American & Canadian Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

   Edited by Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...

   To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870

   A Reference Guide

   By Barbara A. White

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

   By Stephen Knadler

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th...

   To Be Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

   By Will Norman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...

   To Be Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Life of Ezra Pound (Routledge Revivals)

   By Noel Stock

   First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of ‘the modern movement’, a friend and helper...

   To Be Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics

   The Origin and Evolution of American Stories

   By Betina Entzminger

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American...

   To Be Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Transnationalism of American Culture

   Literature, Film, and Music

   Edited by Rocío Davis

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples...

   To Be Published October 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. African American Writing

   Edited by A. Robert Lee

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse Although there are any number of single-volume anthologies on individual writers and movements (e.g. the Harlem Renaissance), African American Writing is the first multi-volume collection to provide users with full coverage of a crucial literary...

   To Be Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

   The Literature of Loss

   By Monica Pearl

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book discusses the significance of late twentieth-century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is reflected and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is...

   To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. American Studies and Citizenship

    Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

    Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly Ruffin

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This collection closely examines the relationship between American Studies scholarship and twenty-first century environmental studies’ expanded attention to transnational and transcultural concepts of ecological citizenship and belonging. Visiting literary, historical, and cultural examples from...

    To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge